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Join the Center for Palestine Studies for a conversation with Farah Nabulsi, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Lila Abu-Lughod about Nabulsi’s Academy Award nominated and BAFTA Award winning short film The Present. Taking the film as a departure, the conversation will center childhood and the experience of children living under occupation.
Registered attendees will receive access to the film 72 hours prior to the online conversation.
The online conversation will take place at 1pm New York / 8pm Jerusalem on 7 October 2021.
Film Synopsis
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
Speakers
Farah Nabulsi is an Oscar-nominated and BAFTA Award-Winning Palestinian British filmmaker, born, raised, and educated in the UK. She left the corporate world in 2016 to start working in the film industry as a writer and producer of short fiction films, exploring topics that matter to her. This includes Today They Took My Son, endorsed by renowned British Director Ken Loach, screened at the United Nations, and officially selected to top tier international film festivals. In 2019, she directed her first film, The Present, which she also co-wrote. The film stars renowned actor, Saleh Bakri. It premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020 and won the coveted Audience Award for Best Film. It had its North American premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for Best Live Action Short, qualifying it for the 2021 Oscars. More info.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on trauma, state crimes and criminology, surveillance, gender violence, law and society. She studies the crime of femicide and other forms of gender based violence, violence against children in conflict ridden areas, crimes of abuse of power in settler colonial contexts, surveillance, securitization and social control. Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the author of numerous publications, including a recent book examining Palestinian childhood, Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press, 2019). More info.
Moderator
Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she teaches in the Department of Anthropology and at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her courses focus on gender politics in the Muslim world, the cultures of nationalism, and the politics of liberalism and women's and human rights. A leading voice in debates about gender, Islam, and global power, her publications have been translated into more than 13 languages. Her current research focuses on museum politics in Palestine and other settler colonies, security discourses and Islamophobia, and religion in the global governance of gender violence. Abu-Lughod recently won the 2021 GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship for her article, “Imagining Palestine’s Alter-Natives: Settler Colonialism and Museum Politics” (2020) in Critical Inquiry 47 (Autumn): 1-27. More info.
The Center’s Palestine Cuts film series is generously supported by Jeanne & Ken Levy-Church.